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The Star (Johannesburg)

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Kind newspapers periodicals
Producer The Star
Coverage 1922-2002
Works using it 11

Debates

Debate Works
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 4
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 4
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining 2
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals 2
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 2
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry 1
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation 1
Resistance and liberation movements 1
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement 1
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Baldwin (1975) Star, Johannesburg, 25 May 1973 (final Bantustan consolidation plans) 1973 Source for the estimated 575,000 people who would have to move under the 1973 consolidation plans.
Baldwin (1975) Star, Johannesburg, 30 June 1973 (Afrikaanse Studentebond resolution) 1973 Shows differences of emphasis within the ruling group over removals.
Cronin (1994) The Star newspaper columns and reports, 1992 and 1994 (Uys, Schlemmer, Van Zyl Slabbert, Boraine, Roberton, Maharaj report) July-August 1992; May 1994 Quoted as evidence of liberal and neo-liberal commentators' hostility to mass action and preference for elite bargaining, and of their reading of the 1994 election.
Crush (1992) The Star, 'Huris Keeps A Finger On The Workforce', 5 August 1980 (J. Murray) 1980 Describes the six phases of Anglo American's HURIS and the categories of personal data stored on black employees.
Harington et al. (2004) The Star, Johannesburg, Sept. 1998 and 29 Nov 2002 (Battersby and Terreblanche) 1998-2002 Source for the estimate that remittances are about 75 per cent of Lesotho's GDP and for rural land degradation and Eastern Cape conditions.
Milburn and Cole (1957) The Star Library (Johannesburg) clipping file on political parties 1920-1955 Noted as a clipping file covering all political parties since 1920.
Minter (1986) Colin Legum, Johannesburg Star, 21 July 1986; Stephen R. Lewis, CSIS Africa Notes, 27 March 1986 1986 Source for regional trade dependence and South Africa's trade surplus with SADCC states.
Morris (1987) Telex from Mr Ben Wilkens to the Star and Business Day, 18 September 1986 1986 Shows the state retracting the removal threat while confirming incorporation on the basis of Moepi's claim.
Morris (1987) The Star, 25 September 1985/1986 article (Chris Heunis statement), and 20 September 1986 September 1985/1986 First notice to the community of the planned removal; Heunis quoted as claiming residents had agreed to co-operate; also used for the clinic and agriculture quotations.
Pirie (1993) Newspaper: letter in The Star (Johannesburg), 23 June 1922; other periodicals (African World 1954, New Commonwealth 1953) 1922-1954 Anecdotal evidence on migrants railed from Piet Retief and on the WNLA air-lift of migrants.
Smith (1972) Statement by Prime Minister B. J. Vorster in Parliament, as reported in the Johannesburg Star, 3 April 1973 1973 Supplies the epigraph, Vorster's claim that the only difference between white and black is geographical, which frames the paper's argument.
Strauss (1993) The Star / The Sunday Star (Johannesburg), March 1992 March 1992 Source for de Klerk's and Hani's statements, N.P. and D.P. positions, the I.F.P. advertisement and foreign reactions.
Taylor (1978) The Star (newspaper), 21/8/33 1933 Illustrates the mining industry's desire for a supply of labour from British territories without Mozambique-type concessions.